H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Jun 17, 2008 06:33 AM UTC:
Derek:
| Could you please give me example lines within the 'winboard.ini'
| file that would successfully do so? I need to make sure every
| character is correct.
Sorry for the late response; I was on holiday for the past two weeks. The
best way to do it is probably to make the option dependent on the engine
selection. That means you have to write it behind the engine name in the
list of pre-selectable engines like:
/firstChessProgramNames={...
'C:/engines/joker/joker80.exe 23' /firstInitString='new\n'
...
}
And something similar for the second engine, using /secondInitString. The
path name of the joker80 executable would of course have to be where you
installed it on your computer; the argument '23' sets the hash-table
size. you could add other arguments, e.g. for setting the piece values,
there as well. Note the executable name and all engine argument are
enclosed by the first set of quotes (which are double quotes, but these
for some reason refuse to print in this forum), and everything after this
first syntactical unit on the line is interpreted as WinBoard arguments
that should be used with this engine when it gets selected. Note that
string arguments are C-style strings, enclosed in double quotes, and
making use of escape sequences like '\n' for newline. The defauld value
for the init strings is 'new\nrandom\n'.
Derek: | Could you please give me example lines within the 'winboard.ini' | file that would successfully do so? I need to make sure every | character is correct. Sorry for the late response; I was on holiday for the past two weeks. The best way to do it is probably to make the option dependent on the engine selection. That means you have to write it behind the engine name in the list of pre-selectable engines like: /firstChessProgramNames={... 'C:/engines/joker/joker80.exe 23' /firstInitString='new\n' ... } And something similar for the second engine, using /secondInitString. The path name of the joker80 executable would of course have to be where you installed it on your computer; the argument '23' sets the hash-table size. you could add other arguments, e.g. for setting the piece values, there as well. Note the executable name and all engine argument are enclosed by the first set of quotes (which are double quotes, but these for some reason refuse to print in this forum), and everything after this first syntactical unit on the line is interpreted as WinBoard arguments that should be used with this engine when it gets selected. Note that string arguments are C-style strings, enclosed in double quotes, and making use of escape sequences like '\n' for newline. The defauld value for the init strings is 'new\nrandom\n'.